Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Included in the rent ($190 a month for a one-bedroom flat to $600) is free bus transport to and from the city between 7 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., free electricity, water and air conditioning. All services, such as plumbing and carpentry, are free. Garage space is $15 a month, and a washer-dryer and dishwasher are each rentable for $10 monthly. There are nine groundskeepers to maintain the lawns, and 15 security guards to keep the peace. "We've always thought it was out of this world," says Irwin Gopnik, a McGill University English professor. Adds Daughter...
...something of a genius at aviation design and engineering. In 1935 he introduced the H1, the first plane with flush rivets to reduce drag, and was honored as the nation's outstanding airman by President Roosevelt. He set transcontinental speed records, then in 1937 flew a refitted Lockheed transport round the world in three days 19 hours, halving Wiley Post's old record...
...transport 700 men. The conception was perhaps too grandiose for the times-the plane was only 11 ft. shorter than a 747. After the war, Maine's Senator Owen Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds and produced no flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure...
...wallop of a Saturn booster at liftoff. After much backstage deliberation, President Nixon last week ordered the space agency to proceed with its long-planned space shuttle. To be built at a cost of at least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...
...being offered one. Above RUTH HUBBARD (in macrobiotic suit) is dragged along the ground as she grasps the ankles of husband GEORGE WALD (under shaft of heavenly light) while SERAPHIM and CHERUBIM (left) and HARVARD UNIVERSITY POLICE (right) fight for control of the body, attempting to transport it to their respective headquarters. With the traditional Commencement oratory flourishes tempered by what Newsweek will next week label (in its cover story) "the new frankness among college presidents", President Bok does award honorary degrees to: Kingman Brewster ("...for dedicated service to scholarship and mankind..."), H. Ross Perot ("...because he is rich...